The public interest journalism site reports that the American Diabetes Association dissuades patients from seeking Gilbert's “Artificial Pancreas Treatment,” saying people with diabetes are a particularly vulnerable population.

Experts from Harvard, the Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute and others attacked Ford's methodology as unproven “hype” that provides patients false hope. Infusion also can prevent diabetics from getting better because it allows them to overlook the known effectiveness of blood sugar control.

“It's basically a land rush to open clinics, because people see that we help their very ill diabetic patients,” Gilbert told inewsource. “Not one doctor who has ever treated patients said it doesn't work.”

Neither Gilbert nor his attorney responded to the website's request for comment after the indictment went public.

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